Crown of Aragon

The Crown of Aragon was a composite monarchy of eastern Spain that existed from 1162 to 1716, with Barcelona serving as its capital. The crown was a personal union of the Kingdom of Aragon and the County of Barcelona,  and it would come to include eastern Spain, parts of southern France, the Balearic Islands, Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, Malta, southern Italy, and parts of Greece. Aragon conquered Majorca in 1231, the Kingdom of Valencia from 1238 to 1245, Sardinia from 1324 to 1420, and Naples from 1501 to 1504, and its House of Trastamara would wield far-ranging influence. The 1469 marriage of Ferdinand II of Aragon with Isabella of Castile would create a united kingdom of Spain, which would be ruled by a single ruler from the House of Habsburg from 1516 to 1700. On Carlos II of Spain's death in 1700, Aragon rebelled against Spain as a source of support for the Habsburgs, and the crown was abolished after the Nueva Planta decrees of 1716, which centralized the Spanish government.